104 mins - United Kingdom 1946 Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Starring: David Niven, Roger Livesey and Kim Hunter Set in a gorgeously photographed Technicolor England and a monochrome heaven, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH took the imaginative daring of jointly credited writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger to new heights.
David Niven plays a British airman who survives a plane crash and falls in love with an American radio operator (Kim Hunter), only to be summoned to the afterlife by a heavenly ‘Conductor’ (Marius Goring). But is heaven just a hallucination brought on by brain injury?“The utterly unique, enduringly rich and strange romantic fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.” The Guardian
Powell / Pressburger Film Season The filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, often collectively known as The Archers, made some of the most influential films of the 1940s and 1950s. With the release of MADE IN ENGLAND, a new documentary about Powell and Pressburger (narrated by Martin Scorsese), Triskel Arts Centre will not only screen this film but also present three of their most acclaimed
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